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FEEBLE FEDS JUST SUGGEST SAFETY RULES By NILES LATHEM and KENNETH LOVETT The feds have issued a wide-ranging list of federal guidelines to beef up security at smaller airports - but left them voluntary, authorities said yesterday. The Transportation Safe- ty Administration recommendations ranged from ensuring hangars and airfields are fenced and locked to making sure pilots don't leave keys on the plane. But the feds say they don't know whether these precautions, issued in May 2004, are in effect at the nation's 19,000 smaller airfields. "This is a voluntary program," a spokesperson said, reflecting the "diversity" of security needs. The Swiss-cheese security that allowed a drunken student pilot to allegedly steal a single-engine Cessna from a Danbury, Conn., airport and go on a joyride Wednesday is ominous because of recent federal warnings that terrorists want to use small planes for a repeat of 9/11. "Intelligence indicates that al Qaeda has explored the use of helicopters or small aircraft to carry out attacks as a result of enhancement in commercial aviation security since September 11, 2001," said a "National Terrorist Threat Overview" issued by the FBI in December. After 9/11, New York enacted legislation covering rural airports that requires planes and hangars be locked, airports be well lit and that security be provided by gates, said state Sen. Michael Balboni (R-L.I.). The problem, he said, is neighboring states didn't follow suit. "We're only as safe as the weakest link," Balboni said. The possibility of a terrorist flying a small aircraft into a New York landmark was raised in December 2003 when an amateur pilot took a single-engine plane into restricted airspace in the city - and around the Statue of Liberty. Federal officials said no new procedures were put into effect after the incident. Home <http://www.nypost.com> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
